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== Anime (Crayon Shinchan)==

Introduction: Anime is a transform of manga, Japanese comic book. Comic book was first introduce to young children to help them build up the hobbit of reading. As time go on, the propose of had shifted. The story line become too fantasy; pictures over taking the words; Entertainment become the only propose for comic book.

In this twenty-first century, technology is a big part of our life and to communicate through these technologies, we would do so through language. “In this spirit, researchers have started to explore how immigrants across the globe are using online spaces to aid in the formulation and/or continuation of their various ethnic identities and affiliations across geographic borders.” (BLACK) So, learning a foreign language is becoming a very universal trend. “Moreover, with the fast-paced propagation of new media and technologies, novel fan practices and ‘virtual’ communities based around popular culture seem to spring up on a daily basis.” (BLACK) Examples of technology popular culture would be anime, drama, music, comic and etc, which is accessible through the internet and is very convenient for all ages to utilize. “What role does popular culture play in their identity development and literate and social practices?” (BLACK) In this page we are going to talk about the different aspect of learning a foreign language through watching anime.

positive
 * different languages translation
 * subtitle
 * creative and fantasy

Positive Ideas: Learning foreign languages through watching anime is definitely on the high end of the positive side. First of all, there are many positive reasons for watching anime. Anime comes in many different languages, especially through the internet, for the purpose and benefit of internet users around the globe to enjoy. With the many different language versions, there are also the ones with subtitles which stream account users edited to better suit the audience for understanding the content in translations. Secondly, with high definition quality, the graphics are better than before and it makes watching anime even more authentic. Then, with the wide range of different types of anime, language learners are free to choose anime that are of their own interest and of their own preference, instead of watching or listening to something that is mind-numbing. Also, it is easier to continue something to one’s own interest rather than the opposite. “As an example, Lam’s (2000) innovative work includes an in-depth case study of a Chinese immigrant who created and maintained a website devoted to a popular Japanese singer.” (BLACK)

negative
 * PG/R language
 * trend: bad influence

Negative Ideas: However, even with all these positive thoughts, there are still some down fall as to learning foreign languages through anime. That is for learners that does not have any or what so ever background at all to the foreign language, then watching custom made anime would not be such a good idea to learn the foreign language from. Due to the culture, tradition, context, society and many other differences in languages, one simple example would be slang terms or sarcasms; it would be very difficult to understand what is going on in an anime without at least some background to the language. Unless the very basic level foreign language learner is only looking to get a very basic idea of what anime is like then it would not be a problem. If not, it is not really recommended for that kind of usage. Another reason would be because just by watching anime alone would not do well to an effective language learning experience. For the reason that, communication is a very important portion to language learning, so just watching anime is not enough, one would need to actually go out to the real world and converse with actual people that are different than the communication in the anime world.

In Japan, Crayon Shinchan is really famous and popular anime but some parents dont allow their children to watch it. There are too many bad contents in Crayon Shinchan such as bad wording, violent, and PG actions. Since we often hear bad words in Crayon Shinchan, so some parents think it will give bad influence to their children. For example, person A was not allowed to watch it when she was elementary school. Because her parents thought the Crayon Shinchan will give her bad affect not only words but also acts, so person A couldn't watch the Crayon Shinchan.



personal experience

Person A who speak Japanese and Chinese and learning English.

Chinese/Chinese subtitle = Learning Chinese character -> writing skill Because Person A can listen and speak Chinese but hard to write and read them. For person A watching Crayon Shinchan with Chinese version in Chinese subtitle helps to improve the reading and writing skill, since he/she can learn a lot of new vocabularies.

English/English subtitle = Learning listening skill Because Person A does not have enough English listening skill, so she needs the subtitle to watch Crayon Shinchan. Through the subtitle person A can understand what they are speaking and also can learn a lot of new vocabularies.

Japanese/English subtitle = Learning English phrase Person A is still learning English, so when he/she can't understand with English version, she will watch the Japanese with English subtitle version. Then she will understand the content and also she can learn how to use English phrase by watching it in Japanese.

personal feeling

Watching anime in other languages helps us a lot to improve our language skill. It is useful method not only for the listening but also for the reading skill. Also watching anime is not difficult and we can learn other languages with fun. In addition we can learn more native and conversational language.

Watching anime sometimes is better than reading a book from that language. In a text book, they only teach you the formal way of speaking the language. You can communicate using the language but never fit in. The conversation in anime is informal. You can learn not only the content, but also the culture, tradition, slang etc from that language.

conclusion

It is really helpful that watching anime to improve language skill. Especially Japanese anime is famous and popular not only in Japan but also in all over the world. However, depends on the anime, some of them will affect bad influence to children. If we can choose appropriate anime, watching anime will help us a lot to improve our language skill.

References:

http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/validate.asp?j=elea&vol=3&issue=2&year=2006&article=5_Black_ELEA_3_2_web

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